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...committee of 13 clergymen, doctors and educators was headed by Methodist Pastor Kenneth G. Greet, father of three children and author of two books on sex relationships. It rejected the council's original instructions which were to prepare "a statement of the Christian case for abstinence from sexual intercourse before marriage and faithfulness within marriage." The morality of human sexuality, asserted the committee firmly, admits of no precise and easy answers. A principal aim of the study group, said Greet, was precisely to correct the distorted concept that the church is made up of "sexless saints sitting in judgment...
Praise & Protest. The report, bannered in the press and seized upon by cartoonists, drew ardent praise and scandalized protests. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, a past president of the Methodist Conference, found it "just right." The Rt. Rev. Ronald Williams, Anglican Bishop of Leicester, demurred: "Sexual intercourse outside marriage is wrong, and young people should be told this." This week the British Council of Churches must consider whether to accept the report as an official pronouncement, and the extremes of disagreement guaranteed a battle...
Generous Giver. Yet those same employees were beneficiaries of one of the U.S.'s first plans for paid vacation and sick leave. Kresge's Methodist upbringing had taught him to be charitable as well as chary. He became a far-ranging philanthropist. In 1924, before foundations had become popular as tax-relief devices, he established the Kresge Foundation, gave $1.6 million in Kresge stock to get it started...
Under its current editor, B. J. (for Billy John) Stiles, 33, a Methodist minister who studied at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, motive has consistently had an eye on the unusual. This month's cover, for example, is a striking serigraph by Sister Mary Corita, the famed art teacher of Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College. Last spring the magazine came briefly to national attention after it published-as a sly commentary on the Christian atheism of Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Hamilton-a mock obituary for God, written by Poet Anthony Towne in the noncommittal style...
...demanded that it cease publication. One of those who came to its defense was the late Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, who showed up at a meeting of the education board with several copies of motive under his arm. "I have read every word of these," thundered the best-known Methodist liberal of his day. "Now I am prepared to discuss it with you." Rather than tangle with the fiery Oxnam, the Southerners decided to drop the matter...